TSO is Home!

For those of you not following along elsewhere…

TSO is home and in the tub.

Interesting that this bathing event was reported by his (much to good for him) wife?

WELCOME HOME!

 

Comments

28 responses to “TSO is Home!”

  1. Kate

    Welcome home!! Job well done!

  2. Biermann

    Welcome Home!!

  3. badam

    He cant possibly stink that bad! I mean to country totally doesnt smell like a burning garbage dump.

    Think she made him shave as well?

  4. When I got home from Iraq, I took 4 showers and 2 baths and still smelled like camel shit for months.

  5. DR_BRETT

    Welcome Home !!
    (I don’t really know you, but I refuse to default on 1969 — when there were not many Well-Wishers for me).

  6. DR_BRETT #5: There it is! Got back in ’69 and got spit at.

    And, yeah I’m still bitter….

    Never again, if I have any say.

    Welcome home!

  7. UpNorth

    Welcome home, TSO. I got home in December 68, and got a welcome home from two stewardesses and my parents. So, I wish anyone a welcome home that I can.

  8. DR_BRETT

    Thank you, Mr. Ponsdorf — and the same to you, with MEANING !!

    No, I was never bitter — they never touched me;
    I just judge zombies to merit zero value, zero respect —
    how can “human” beings be so DEAD INSIDE ??

  9. OWB

    Welcome back, TSO. Wish we could have all been there with you. Or maybe not. 😉

    And yes, remember about that trying to get clean thing. But will admit to having gotten a head start. The plane that took us out of theater from DS/DS/DS broke on it’s way in – and they had already stowed away our tents with no extra sleeping surfaces anywhere. So, was forced to spend my last night there in a 5-star hotel. With an excellent tub. And room service.

    Sorry. Sometimes it really is nice to be Air Force.

  10. B Woodman

    Congratulations on coming home, hopefully safe and sound, with no extra appendages, diseases or holes.

  11. Welcome home man! Try to keep that chin fur for a few days! Mrs. TSO–make him shave that shit tonight. God only knows what’s in there…shit like monkeys, camel spiders, and turtles…turtles are the worst.

  12. Yat Yas 1833

    TSO, welcome home! Glad to see you’re all in one piece. I expect to be reading tales of your heroic exploits for days and weeks and months to come.

    #9 OWB, “They had already stowed our tents”? “No extra sleeping surfaces”? Really?!? What’s wrong with a poncho liner and the ground? I guess that’s why you guys have an origami for an emblem and we have the Eagle, Globe & Anchor!?! Just kidding man. Our Jarhead family has evolved to the point that my grand-nephew will be joining the Air Force in June. Smart boy!

  13. Mr Wolf, non-Esquire

    Welcome home brother!!!!! Glad you made it in one piece…

    Woodman- don’t you mean MISSING APPENDAGES, not extra? It’s not like he was visiting Chernobyl…

    TSO- about your next trip—-

  14. Old Tanker

    The Air Force made me sleep on a hanger floor with my bags on the plane….. LUXOOORY I say!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw&feature=related

    Ooooo we dreamed of a corridor!!!!

  15. PintoNag

    Welcome Home, TSO!

  16. SSG Medzyk

    Home? Why that was almost as much time in-country as Mathis!

    …i keed, i keed!

  17. upNorth

    Hey, TSO, if no one told you, Lugar lost.

  18. headhuntersix

    Congrats…chaplain’s out, we’ve separated into 3 distinct principalities, you blankets make a good barrier.

  19. Hondo

    headhuntersix: So, the Balkanization of Afghanistan begins? (smile)

    Welcome back, TSO – and glad to see you made it back intact. But next time, just draw a US-flag with a target superimposed on your back instead of wearing a Red Sox hat and Ranger Up t-shirt and traveling commercial using GI luggage (duffel bag). Geez.

    OPSEC while traveling overseas, amigo – this day and age it’s a good thing for civilians, too.

  20. Welcome home TSO

  21. Siggurdsson

    Welcome back, TSO. I’ve keeping the Burn Pit warm for you…

  22. TSO

    @19. I had other luggage until I found out the flight requirements from KAF-DXB. Also, I thought I could check my bag all the way through. Not so much.

    BTW- Customs = nonexistent. I vaguely remembered them going through everything I owned coming back from stan. This time the lady looked at me, stamped my thing and smiled telling me to have a wonderful day.

  23. streetsweeper

    Welcome home, TSO!

  24. Welcome home!

  25. 500th Bob

    I add my Welcome Home message. Now shave that furry that furry SHIT off your face!

  26. 509th Bob

    Oh crap! I posted as “500th Bob”! How damned DRUNK am I? Be well, TSO, and give your wife a BIG hug!

  27. 509th Bob

    AFTER you shave!

  28. melony

    Welcome home TSO and Dr. Brett!!